2026 Upland is out for us.

2point said:
I lived in Malta for a year and hunted along the Milk river. I learned to hate Russian Olive bushes. The roosters always kept them between us. 😀 Nicest people in the world on the hi-line. I didn’t like the mosquitoes.
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Yep, you get a poke at a small window between the Russian olives. I think you can hunt one rooster all day, flush him a half dozen times and never get a clear shot.
 
2point said:
I lived in Malta for a year and hunted along the Milk river. I learned to hate Russian Olive bushes. The roosters always kept them between us. 😀 Nicest people in the world on the hi-line. I didn’t like the mosquitoes.
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I cut my pheasant hunting teeth in the late nineties hunting around bowdoin mgt area. The coolest habitat, and winter cover for pheasants. The feds designated all Russian olives detrimental to native species, and the cost of millions of dollars cut em. Funny fact they left the residue in piles for years creating habitats for skunk and raccoons, to prey on duck eggs, and nests. No nuance to the problem and locale at all. Certainly Russian olives are a real problem on canals and rivers , but on an upland prairie can help sustain many forms of native species!
 
I lived there in 95/96. I remember the first time I drove to Bowdoin with my brother in law. It was getting late and about dusk. We saw a bull snake on the road and laughed as he said holy crap I thought it was a speed bump. My God that was a big snake. We still laugh about that. I got to get back and hunt that country again. 😀
 
Dixieman said:
You are right goose but most of the guys I know up that want more than a six pack. To me I have loved it and lived for it for 60 years but the best hunting by far is now in the past and will never be back. Like I said on a couple other post the golf course is where I am and will be. The time money travel and effort is not worth it it to me anymore. I guess I just got old.
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I totally understand what you're saying, and I play a lot of golf as well. I hug by myself most of the time, or with this short guy, and we tend to get permission pretty easily but we don't pay. I see these Gucci types with their $80,000 suburban, and I say to myself, these are the type of guys that are paying to hunt.
 
dustin mudd said:
I cut my pheasant hunting teeth in the late nineties hunting around bowdoin mgt area. The coolest habitat, and winter cover for pheasants. The feds designated all Russian olives detrimental to native species, and the cost of millions of dollars cut em. Funny fact they left the residue in piles for years creating habitats for skunk and raccoons, to prey on duck eggs, and nests. No nuance to the problem and locale at all. Certainly Russian olives are a real problem on canals and rivers , but on an upland prairie can help sustain many forms of native species!
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Yeah they really screwed that place up didn't they!!
 
Yeah I hunted north and west of Malta for several years. Lots of pheasants. Tons of Sharptails and Huns. Great hunting. Hunted with a local game warden one day and he put us in more sharps and Huns than I have ever seen. Just too dang far to get all the way out there year in and year outt from north Georgia By the way. It’s Good Friday. I wish all you boys on the forum a peaceful and reflective Easter. Our Lord blessed us and Sunday he has risen. If he can save a wretch like me he can help anyone. Glad b bless you all friends!
 
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